Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | BR said the ballot showed there were real reservations among rail staff over taking industrial action and urged the union to pull back from a strike . |
| 2 | Indeed this is proven by the fact that some of the original 1 Squadron crews of 1950 were still flying in 2 Squadron Canberra medium bombers over South Vietnam over a decade later . |
| 3 | Following these discoveries one of the most noticeable trends in skin care over the next few years looks set to be the development of products which are specifically ‘ Retin-A compatible ’ . |
| 4 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 5 | Mention of celebrity concerts brings to mind another Vancouver personality , Miss Lily Laverock , who was the city 's first real impresario , bringing in many international artists on concert tours over the years . |
| 6 | The great advantages of copper pipe over the old-fashioned lead piping are that it is light in weight , relatively cheap and easy to work with . |
| 7 | increased powers for school governors over internal budgeting and the appointment of staff and a shift in balance towards parent governors ; |
| 8 | Ministers won a vote to give a private company , Scallop Kings , exclusive rights to farm shellfish over an area of seabed along the shore south- west of Fort William . |
| 9 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 10 | One of the unsatisfactory features of employment law over the past couple of decades has been the rule that a wrongful dismissal claim must be brought in either the County Court or the High Court . |
| 11 | When debating their new Constitution in 1988 , Congress passed a provision to force foreign companies to divest their controlling interests in mineral extraction over a four-year period . |
| 12 | This would agree a price for the basic service , with extra money for extraordinary items ( like travel and accommodation in the Gulf ) and additional money for increased amounts of news coverage over and above the norm . |
| 13 | The view taken here is that one can produce quite easily a catechism of doom , supported with prodigious rates of soil loss over millions of hectares ( and some examples are given in this book ) . |
| 14 | It is appropriate to consider briefly some of the more important developments in world trade over the past fifteen years or so . |
| 15 | Three criteria have been chosen , attempting to measure the most important attributes of company performance over the year . |
| 16 | THREE people were rescued from a yacht which got into difficulties in heavy seas off Bardsey Island over the weekend . |
| 17 | However , the Marxist regime in South Yemen has permitted the USSR the use of port facilities at Aden and numerous airfields for reconnaissance missions over the Indian Ocean and the Horn of Africa . |
| 18 | A glittering figure on the international financial circuit , he not only provided East Germany with much-needed foreign currency but also played a central part in all political and economic exchanges with West Germany over the past 30 years . |
| 19 | A glittering figure on the international financial circuit , he not only provided East Germany with much-needed foreign currency but also played a central part in all political and economic exchanges with West Germany over the past 30 years . |
| 20 | It is of course essential to our readers ' work to be able to compare changing patterns of land use over time , and often to be able to pinpoint a particular feature for various dates during , perhaps , more than a century of the topographic record . |
| 21 | Welch implies that to account for the apparent increases in zooplankton biomass over the past 30 years in the North Pacific without a marked concomitant increase in phytoplankton biomass ( as reflected by chlorophyll ) , phytoplankton productivity must have increased . |
| 22 | Their interest is focused upon revealed changes in integration effects over time , as indicated by a domestic share of apparent domestic consumption ( p-x ) , a partner share of apparent domestic consumption ( Mp ) , and a rest of the world share of apparent domestic consumption ( Mrow ) . |
| 23 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |
| 24 | Fig. 9.1 Age-sex profiles for Great Britain over a period of 130 years . |
| 25 | It may be that the Minoans enjoyed the social and diplomatic aspects of long-drawn-out negotiations over the price of a cargo with Egyptian , Cypriot , or Trojan merchants . |
| 26 | President Bush signed into law on Dec. 18 a transport bill which allocated $119,000 million of federal funds to road construction over a six-year period , and $31,500 million to mass transit . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , there are still enormous gaps and matters of controversy in our understanding of both the wide variations in strike activity over time and the wide variations in strike activity between Britain and other countries . |
| 28 | A SUCCESSFUL tooling company is on the expansion trail , with hopes of 70 new jobs in North Powys over the next three years as a result of a £4m investment programme . |
| 29 | Too full to speak , Paige slid her arm about his waist and let the hovering waves of sleep drift over her . |
| 30 | Are you aware of any significant changes in council policies over the past five years ? |